Mark Addy

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Date of Birth: January 14th 1964

Mark Addy can currently be seen in the CBS comedy Still Standing opposite Jami Gertz. Addy and Gertz star as parents of a blue collar family in Chicago.

On the big screen, Addy was seen in The Time Machine for Dreamworks and Warner Brothers. The movie, written by John Logan, was a new screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic time-travel novel. Directed by Simon Wells (The Prince of Egypt), the great-grandson of H.G. Wells, the movie also starred Guy Pearce and tells the story of an inventor (Pearce) who builds a machine that allows him to travel 800,000 years into the future. Addy starred as the inventor's best friend and fellow scientist.

Addy was born and currently resides in the city of York in Northern England. He started working at the age of 15, as a stagehand at the York Theatre Royal. Addy trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has worked extensively in theatres throughout England including the Hull Truck Theatre Company and Royal National Theatre with such directors as Richard Eyre, Howard Davies, Nicholas Hytner, Alan Ayckbourn, John Godber and Jude Kelly.